Interactive Data Viz

Start by loading the plotly library

# Import plotly
library(plotly)
## Loading required package: ggplot2
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## Attaching package: 'plotly'
## The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
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##     last_plot
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
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##     filter
## The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
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##     layout
data(diamonds, package= "ggplot2")

str(diamonds)
## Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    53940 obs. of  10 variables:
##  $ carat  : num  0.23 0.21 0.23 0.29 0.31 0.24 0.24 0.26 0.22 0.23 ...
##  $ cut    : Ord.factor w/ 5 levels "Fair"<"Good"<..: 5 4 2 4 2 3 3 3 1 3 ...
##  $ color  : Ord.factor w/ 7 levels "D"<"E"<"F"<"G"<..: 2 2 2 6 7 7 6 5 2 5 ...
##  $ clarity: Ord.factor w/ 8 levels "I1"<"SI2"<"SI1"<..: 2 3 5 4 2 6 7 3 4 5 ...
##  $ depth  : num  61.5 59.8 56.9 62.4 63.3 62.8 62.3 61.9 65.1 59.4 ...
##  $ table  : num  55 61 65 58 58 57 57 55 61 61 ...
##  $ price  : int  326 326 327 334 335 336 336 337 337 338 ...
##  $ x      : num  3.95 3.89 4.05 4.2 4.34 3.94 3.95 4.07 3.87 4 ...
##  $ y      : num  3.98 3.84 4.07 4.23 4.35 3.96 3.98 4.11 3.78 4.05 ...
##  $ z      : num  2.43 2.31 2.31 2.63 2.75 2.48 2.47 2.53 2.49 2.39 ...
head(diamonds)
## # A tibble: 6 x 10
##   carat cut       color clarity depth table price     x     y     z
##   <dbl> <ord>     <ord> <ord>   <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 0.23  Ideal     E     SI2      61.5    55   326  3.95  3.98  2.43
## 2 0.21  Premium   E     SI1      59.8    61   326  3.89  3.84  2.31
## 3 0.23  Good      E     VS1      56.9    65   327  4.05  4.07  2.31
## 4 0.290 Premium   I     VS2      62.4    58   334  4.2   4.23  2.63
## 5 0.31  Good      J     SI2      63.3    58   335  4.34  4.35  2.75
## 6 0.24  Very Good J     VVS2     62.8    57   336  3.94  3.96  2.48
# Visualizing categorical data

cut_freq <- plot_ly(diamonds, x = ~cut)
cut_freq
## No trace type specified:
##   Based on info supplied, a 'histogram' trace seems appropriate.
##   Read more about this trace type -> https://plot.ly/r/reference/#histogram
clarity_freq_bycut <- plot_ly(diamonds, x=~cut, color=~clarity)
clarity_freq_bycut
## No trace type specified:
##   Based on info supplied, a 'histogram' trace seems appropriate.
##   Read more about this trace type -> https://plot.ly/r/reference/#histogram